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AVADirect X7200

When I first picked up the AVADirect X7200, I almost dropped it. It's heavy--12 pounds, 10 ounces, without the 300W power brick, which weighs more than 3.5 pounds by itself--and it's also not well balanced, so the unit nearly tipp [...]

Posted On : Dec, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Aussies get first Chromebook laptops

Kogan will release a laptop based on Google's Chrome operating system on June 7, beating Asian PC makers Samsung and Acer as first to release the Chromebook. Google said that Chromebooks bring all of Google browser Chrome's speed, [...]

Posted On : Jun, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Laptops play catch up to the iPad, Xoom

Market researcher Gartner released a research note Thursday claiming that laptops are not meeting the demands of the social-networking era. So, will mobile PCs become more like the Xoom and the iPad, which are, in turn, larger versions o [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Thunderbolt: Intel’s Light Peak high-speed interface gets a ...

With the announcement of new MacBook Pros this morning came the news that Intel’s Light Peak technology is now known as Thunderbolt. News hit yesterday that Apple would likely be the first company to adopt the new I/O tech [...]

Posted On : Feb, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

AT&T to begin taking Atrix 4G pre-order beginning Feb 13th

Well, AT&T has said that it will begin accepting pre-orders for Motorola Atrix 4G handset from Feb 13th onwards. Powered by 2×1 GHz dual core processor, Atrix turns into a working laptop with the help of a laptop dock accompany [...]

Posted On : Feb, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Return of the laptop

In the last week of December 2010, research firm IDC India reported PC sales numbers that painted an optimistic picture for the Indian market. For the first three quarters of 2010, unit shipments stood at 7.4 million pieces working out t [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

PC sales set to plummet

Computer purchases would decline by 39% and cellphones would decline by 56% compared with last year, global managing consulting company Accenture said yesterday. However, sales of three-dimensional televisions were expected to rise 500%, [...]

Posted On : Jan, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Laptop Buying Guide 2010

Many decades ago, having a telephone at home meant that you're a well-to-do fella. We still remember the days when an entire building in the housing society had just one or at the most two phone lines, with neighbors making a beeline [...]

Posted On : Dec, 22 2010 | Comments : 0

Quad core processors for next-gen Intel-powered notebooks

CES 2011 will see the first of Sandy Bridge-powered notebooks debut, where it will offer quad-core processors to those who think that dual cores aren't good enough for their everyday computing needs. We do know that upcoming MacBooks [...]

Posted On : Dec, 18 2010 | Comments : 0

How to track your lost laptop

To allow law enforcement agencies access a novel method of tracking and recovering lost  laptops, leading anti-virus solution provider Quick Heal has launched a service. All that a laptop owner has to do is register with 'Quick [...]

Posted On : Dec, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

CES 2011 Gadget Preview

For some reason, despite our increasingly mobile society in which people regularly carry around fancy tech devices, there is a severe lack of stylish, attractive laptop bags. Finnish designer Golla seeks to bring sexy to the stage with i [...]

Posted On : Dec, 09 2010 | Comments : 0